Fly-net for horses



(No Model.)

F. S. WEAVER.

FLY NET FOR HORSES.

No. 364,455. PatentedJune 7, 1887.

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FRANK S; \VEAVER, OF MOUNDSVILLE, WEST VIRGINIA.

FLY-N ET 'FOR HORSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0.. 364,455, dated June '7, 1887.

Application filed February '7, 1887. Seiial No. 26,776. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, FRANK S. WEAVER, of ll/IOilIldSVillG, in the county of Marshall and State of \Vest Virginia, have invented a new and Improved Fly-Net for Horses and Method of Making the same, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to fly-nets for horses, and has for its object to facilitate the production of inexpensive and durable goods of this character.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts of the fly-net and in the method of making the same, all as hereinafter fully described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a plan view of part of a fiy-net constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail view of part of one of the ribs or bars and with a spliced lash and a single lash fastened thereto, and shows also one of the slits made in the rib to receive the lash-fastening eyelets. Fig.3 is a face view of part of one of the lashes, showing the slit therein for the passage of the eyeletfastening. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section on the line a" m, Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is a detail view illustrating how two lashes may be fastened together and how lashes may be spliced at one side of the intersecting joint.

In earryingout my invention I slit the flynet lashes A and the net ribs or bars 13 at a b, respectively, where they are to intersect or cross each other, andthcn lay the lashes on top of the ribs and insert eyelets 0 through the slits a. b and clinch them at the back or under side of the ribs, as clearly shown in the drawings.

Where a long lash crosses a rib of the net, as at the right-hand lash in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings, the eyelet will pass through but two thicknesses of leather or other material of which the net is made; but when a lash is to be joined or spliced the slit ends of its two parts will be lapped on each other over the slit of the rib or bar and the eyelet will be passed through all three thicknesses of material and clinched at the undeuside of the rib, as shown at the left-hand lash in Figs. 2 and 4 of the drawings.

Fig. 5 illustrates howtwo narrow lashes, D E, may be joined where they cross each other by the passage of an eyelet, 0, through slits made in both lashes where they intersect, the back or clinched end of the eyelet being here shown; and this figure of the drawings also shows how a lash may be spliced at one side of the intersecting joint by slitting the parts of the lash near their extremities, which are preferably pointed, as shown in fulland dotted lines, and then passing the shank of the eyelet through the slits of both parts, preparatory to upsetting or elinchingthe end of the eyelet for comv pleting the fastening, this splice-joint clearly showing how the shank of the eyelet spreads the leather laterally in passing through the slits in the lash.

It will be noticed that by simply slitting the lashes and ribs where the eyelet-shanks pass through them none of the material of the lashes or ribs of the net is removed; hence they retain quite or nearly their full strength, which is not the case when holes are punched through the lash or rib, or both, at their points of junction to receive fastening eyelets or rivets; hence the net is strong and durable, and the lashes cannot slip or pull through their fast enings, as lashes held to net ribs or bars by the overlapping upon them of the end flanges of eyelets passed through-the ribs at opposite edges of the lashes are liable to do; and this latter method of fastening the lashes requires two eyelets at each intersecting joint in the net, materially increasing the cost of the fastenings and the labor in making the net over r1 claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. As an improved article of manufacture,

a fly-net forhorses,c0nsisting of longitudinallysaid parts by placing one upon the other with slitted ribs and lashes placed with their slits their slits crossing and then inserting an eye- 10 crossing each other, and rivets or eyelets passed let or rivet through the slits and clinching it, through said crossed slits and clinched, subsubstantially as set forth.

stantially as set forth. FRANK S. \VEAVER.

2. The herein-described method of uniting the ribs and lashes of fly-nets, which consists in slitting the ribs and lashes and then uniting Witnesses:

K. R. llIARTIN, V. A. WEAVER. 

